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Free Education Empowers Rural Girls In Huaping - China

A teacher grades exam papers at Huaping Senior High School for Girls in Huaping County, Lijiang City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 24, 2025. Each morning at Huaping High School for Girls in Yunnan Province, the schoolyard rings with a bold pledge, "I was born to be a mountain not a creek, rising to the high peaks with the valleys at my feet." Behind that voice stands Zhang Guimei, the school's founder and principal. In her sixties and struggling with illness, she still devotes more than 18 hours a day to her students. Megaphone in hand, she has become a living symbol of how education can open doors that poverty once closed. Founded in 2008, Huaping High School for Girls is the country's first senior high school to offer free education for girls. The school in mountainous Yunnan Province has created a miracle, with more than 2,000 graduates -- most of whom come from low-income rural families -- admitted to colleges and universities. Many of them later became teachers, doctors and civil servants, ful

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Election Day in Extremadura - Spain

Ballot papers and envelopes for the regional elections in Extremadura at a polling station, on December 21, 2025, in Merida, Badajoz, Extremadura (Spain). Around 891,000 Extremadurians have been summoned today to exercise their right to vote in the elections to the Assembly of Extremadura called in advance by President María Guardiola after the breakdown of parliamentary support and the failure to approve the Budget. Photo by Javier Cintas / Europa Press / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Election Day in Extremadura - Spain

Ballot papers and envelopes for the regional elections in Extremadura at a polling station, on December 21, 2025, in Merida, Badajoz, Extremadura (Spain). Around 891,000 Extremadurians have been summoned today to exercise their right to vote in the elections to the Assembly of Extremadura called in advance by President María Guardiola after the breakdown of parliamentary support and the failure to approve the Budget. Photo by Javier Cintas / Europa Press / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Election Day in Extremadura - Spain

Ballot papers and envelopes inside a ballot box during the regional elections in Extremadura at a polling station, on December 21, 2025, in Merida, Badajoz, Extremadura (Spain). Around 891,000 Extremadurians have been summoned today to exercise their right to vote in the elections to the Assembly of Extremadura called in advance by President María Guardiola after the breakdown of parliamentary support and the failure to approve the Budget. Photo by Javier Cintas / Europa Press / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Election Day in Extremadura - Spain

Ballot papers and envelopes for the regional elections in Extremadura at a polling station, on December 21, 2025, in Merida, Badajoz, Extremadura (Spain). Around 891,000 Extremadurians have been summoned today to exercise their right to vote in the elections to the Assembly of Extremadura called in advance by President María Guardiola after the breakdown of parliamentary support and the failure to approve the Budget. Photo by Javier Cintas / Europa Press / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Election Day in Extremadura - Spain

Ballot papers and envelopes for the regional elections in Extremadura at a polling station, on December 21, 2025, in Merida, Badajoz, Extremadura (Spain). Around 891,000 Extremadurians have been summoned today to exercise their right to vote in the elections to the Assembly of Extremadura called in advance by President María Guardiola after the breakdown of parliamentary support and the failure to approve the Budget. Photo by Javier Cintas / Europa Press / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Election Day in Extremadura - Spain

Ballot papers and envelopes for the regional elections in Extremadura at a polling station, on December 21, 2025, in Merida, Badajoz, Extremadura (Spain). Around 891,000 Extremadurians have been summoned today to exercise their right to vote in the elections to the Assembly of Extremadura called in advance by President María Guardiola after the breakdown of parliamentary support and the failure to approve the Budget. Photo by Javier Cintas / Europa Press / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Election Day in Extremadura - Spain

Ballot papers and envelopes for the regional elections in Extremadura at a polling station, on December 21, 2025, in Merida, Badajoz, Extremadura (Spain). Around 891,000 Extremadurians have been summoned today to exercise their right to vote in the elections to the Assembly of Extremadura called in advance by President María Guardiola after the breakdown of parliamentary support and the failure to approve the Budget. Photo by Javier Cintas / Europa Press / ABACAPRESS.COM

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China: Deer Wanders into Classroom, Eats Students’ Exam Papers in Sichuan

On November 3, 2025, in Sichuan, China, a deer wandered into a classroom and began munching on students’ exam papers, leaving everyone shocked and laughing.

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Chinese papers rap Japan PM Takaichi

Photo taken in Beijing on Nov. 20, 2025, shows the Nov. 20 editions of Chinese newspapers criticizing Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi for her recent remarks on Taiwan amid an escalating diplomatic row between the two countries.

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Budapest World Cat Show - Hungary

A judge signs papers during the World Cat Federation (WCF) cat show in Budapest, Hungary on September 28, 2025. Photo by Attila Volgyi/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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